rattleweed

English

Etymology

From rattle +‎ weed.

Noun

rattleweed (plural rattleweeds)

1. Any plant of the genus Astragalus.
2. Other plants
   1. Baptisia arachnifera, an endangered legume native to the United States.
   2. Clematis fremontii, a flowering plant in the buttercup family found in the United States.
   3. Crotalaria retusa, a flowering legume native to tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia.
   4. Senna covesii, a perennial subshrub native to the United States and Mexico.

Synonyms

• milkvetch, locoweed

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rattleweed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)